Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Politically the new decrees place Jews & Jewesses in the same category, lumping them with German criminals and imbeciles beyond the pale of citizenship, franchise and eligibility for State office. Complicated fractional categories for fixing the exact status of part-Jews as to political rights and marriage make the decrees a maze but a great pair of scissors is provided to cut all Gordian knots. Realmleader Adolf Hitler has overruling power in all respects. As a one-man Jew's Supreme Court he can dispense such exceptional favors as permitting Soviet Ambassador Suritz to keep an apple-cheeked, 16-year...
...Unable to see how plants manufacture their cellulose, botanists have supposed for a long time that the membranes were laid down in particles too small to be seen under the microscope. Researchers could estimate the molecular weight of cellulose at something around 162. but they could not find the exact weight, or the melting point of the pure substance, or the molecular architecture...
...ceremonies with considerable suaveness and a nice sort of Chevalier accent. He justifies himself in the second act with a most unusual and amusing novelty. With the spotlight focused on a black table top, he causes two fingers of each hand to move so that they give an exact imitation of the more popular dance styles. Raphael, the well known concertina player, has, under his French plumber's exterior, the soul and talent of the lighter and more dazzling classics which stop the show for numerous encores. The Rocky brothers dance lightly and spiritedly with their comely partner, Helen Gray...
...Bounty he went to London, said to Gieves, Bond Street tailors: "I wish to inquire about some uniforms you made some time ago for Captain William Bligh." Said the clerk: "Yes sir, and about what was the date, sir?'' Said Actor Laughton: "1789." Gieves promptly produced the exact specifications of the uniforms worn by Captain Bligh, had a complete set copied for Actor Laughton to wear in the picture...
...minute study. Apparently with careful design, Byron began spreading stories about himself when his fortunes were highest. He even confided in scatter-brained Lady Caroline, after she had become his virulent enemy. Prevented from publicly proclaiming his love for his sister, he married, choosing as his wife a prim, exact intellectual whom he did not love and whose highbrow affectations amused him and his friends. He took his bride to his sister's home, tormenting her with crazy half-disclosures, while his sister avoided him, incredible rumors spread, and the whole household trembled on the verge of insanity...